Skywatcher Skyliner FlexTube™ Auto Tracking Dobsonian Telescopes
| The Dob with a Difference |
At long last - a Dobsosnian that collapses down to be portable and has a tracking facility!
Introducing the Ultimate in Dobsonian design!!The patented collapsible FlexTube™ system for ultimate convenience & portability, has now been combined with powerful dual-axis servo motors and encoders in the base unit.
Now you can enjoy the luxury of Automatically Slewing and Tracking celestial objects, with the FlexTube’s precision diffraction-limited optics, via easy handset commands.
Never before has owning a large telescope been so convenient
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| Available with 8, 10 and 12 inch tubes these brilliant dobsonians collapse as shown (below left) for transport and are controlled with a simple handset as shown (below right). | |
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| Scope | 200mm | 250mm | 300mm |
| Magnifications (with Eyepieces supplied) | x48 & x120 | x48 & x120 | x60 & x150 |
| Highest Practical Power (Potential) | x400 | x500 | x600 |
| Diameter of Primary Mirror | 200mm | 254mm | 305mm |
| Telescope Focal Length | 1200mm (f/6) | 1200mm (f/5) | 1500mm (f/5) |
| Eyepieces Supplied | (1.25"): 10mm & 25mm | ||
| Focuser | Dual-Fit 1.25"/2" Crayford Focuser | ||
| Primary Mirror | Parabolic | ||
| Secondary Mirror Supports | 0.5mm Ultra-Thin | ||
| Finderscope | 9x50 | ||
| Camera Connection | Direct DSLR | ||
| Light Gathering | 77% more than 150mm | 56% more than 200mm | 44% more than 250mm |
| Skyliner-250PX FlexTube™ AUTO 254mm (10") F/1200 Parabolic Truss-Tube FULLY MOTORISED auto- tracking Dobsonian Telescope | Skyliner-300P FlexTube&reade; AUTO 305mm (12") F/1500 Parabolic Truss-Tube fully motorised auto-tracking Dobsonian Telescope | |
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"The hand controller can slew the telescope to almost any position you wish to go to...The telescope is
really nippy and yet, despite the size of the OTA it’s moving, it is remarkably quiet...The automatic
mode has a unique and patented override, which allows you to manually move the telescope to a position
and retain the tracking when you get there. This in practice works incredibly well...This truss tube
literally just slides into position and locks down, saving a huge amount of set-up time...For Lunar
and planetary imagers this is a fantastic system once collimated, taking quite extreme levels of magnification...
Views of the Moon during the Spring Moonwatch week had neighbours and family members enthralled...
The tracking kept Saturn in the eyepiece view of a 12mm Plossl for a good hour...Through a 40mm
wide-field eyepiece, deep sky objects like M31, M51 and some of spring’s globular clusters were
jaw-dropping with impressive detail...All in all this is a great grab and go set-up, with the light
grasp of some of my largest telescopes, yet it can be assembled and disassembled with lightning speed,
dropping down to a size that can be put in the corner of a room or garage and lifted by just one person."
Astronomy Now Magazine |
"The Skyliner-300P FlexTube AUTO is a delight to use...Now it has added auto-tracking motors to the FlexTube design,
taking the Dobsonian on its next great leap forward...The Skyliner’s 1500mm of focal length collapses down to just
under a metre thanks to its telescopically extending trusses, making it extremely portable for such a large
instrument. We were impressed to find no collimation issues even after repeated setups...With its tracking
motors we could take decent images of the Moon and planets, despite the fact that long exposure imaging
has never been the domain of the Dobsonian in the past...The 10mm eyepiece revealed a very refined
view indeed (of Epsilon Lyrae), clearly splitting the famed star into its four components...
Saturn was also a beguiling sight...The deep sky was equally striking...Messier 13,
the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules was stunning....Nebulae really benefitted from the
Skyliner’s light grasp...Overall, the Skyliner put in a premier performance, but the real
delight is its tracking, which keeps objects in view for pretty long periods of time...
This gives you all the pleasures of viewing the night sky with a larger telescope without
the drawbacks...Thoroughly recommended."
Sky At Night Magazine |
The Alt-Azimuth Mount comes with
Sky-Watcher 17Ah Power Tank Recommended (see below) |
Skywatcher Skyliner 300mm FlexTube Auto Price: £1097.00
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| Skywatcher Skyliner 250mm FlexTube Auto Price: £797.00
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| Skywatcher Skyliner 200mm FlexTube Auto Price: £597.00
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| Sky-Watcher 17Ah Power Tank | |
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Sky-Watcher 17Ah Power Tank Price: £99.99
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